🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀 ¿♭♮♯♫♪? ¡♭♮♯♫♪! “How-w-w-DEE-E-E-E! I’m jes’ so proud to be here!” ¿♭♮♯♫♪? ¡♭♮♯♫♪! 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
Chipsticks I’m just so glad you are back on this fine Mornin’ and you should be so proud of those who helped while you took a long overdue break. “They did good” Don’t wait so long next time.😀

🍀 Started reading the article last night, but too tired to Irish. Thanks for the reminder. Teddy lost his leg to cancer, right? I remember when his father died, he was so eloquent. 🍀 Are my shamrocks annoying everyone?

That is right. We spend $$$ giving tax breaks to oil companies.
We spend $$$ giving tax breaks to big agriculture companies.
“Carried interest” gives tax breaks to those who need it least and who make out well by avoiding tax on sales of art vacation homes horses, etc. Oh, and golf courses.

1.1 Trillion tax breaks to the powerful doled out by the USA every year. More than Medicare + Medicaid and more than SS.

The Real Spending problem is the give-aways to the already rich.

How can we spread this message better? It was the top editorial on the NYTimes today.
How can we make Boehner own this spending problem and stop him for using it falsely to suggest austerity for most of us?

Hello Everyone. A blessed and peaceful St. Patrick’s Day to all at TOD. Special greetings to you from Montserrat, the other Emerald Isle; the only other country in the world other than Ireland that celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with a public holiday.

Every year, we have a week of activities that leads up to St. Patrick’s Day. This year, We have many visitors from Ireland including Martin Healy and his band. Healy and his band performed at a concert last Wednesday evening and yesterday, they lit up the local radio station with some live inspiring Irish songs. Tomorrow, he and his band will also perform at the culminating fair. I wonder if he is related to Henry.

Today we all went to church in our national colour which is green. Tomorrow is the public holiday since St. Patrick’s Day this year falls on a Sunday.

If you are wondering why this day is so important to us, the first Europeans to settle here were the Irish. Consequently, our culture is a combination of Irish and African customs. Many of the places and families here still carry Irish names like Kinsale and Sweeney. Our national dish is an Irish stew cooked with African flavours. Another national symbol is the shamrock leaf.

The day has even more significance for us as a people because in 1768, the slaves on Montserrat planned an uprising for their freedom on St. Patrick’s Day. However, the plan was leaked and the slaves were killed. So, St. Patrick’s Day is also called National Day as we commemmorate the bravery of our ancestors.

Happy St. Patrick’s day, PrayerWarriorforObama! Thank you for giving this info about Montserrat. This is why I love coming to TOD, I learn so much about customs and history from the people that post here from all over the world.

After watching voters punish the GOP in the 2012 elections, Republican elites have been talking a brave game about reforms that would make the party less repulsive to Latinos, women and gay-friendly millennials. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the GOP’s hip-hop-quoting young standard-bearer, is pressing conservatives to back an amnesty for undocumented immigrants. Dozens of party stalwarts, headlined by former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, renounced their opposition to gay marriage in a Supreme Court brief. GOP bigwigs have even launched New Republican – a group modeled after Bill Clinton’s centrist Democratic Leadership Council – which seeks to rebrand the party as “colorblind,” “not anti-government” and dedicated to “ending corporate welfare.”

How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich

Don’t be fooled. On the ground, a very different reality is unfolding: In the Republican-led Congress, GOP-dominated statehouses and even before the nation’s highest court, the reactionary impulses of the Republican Party appear unbowed. Across the nation, the GOP’s severely conservative agenda – which seeks to impose job-killing austerity, to roll back voting and reproductive rights, to deprive the working poor of health care, and to destroy agencies that protect the environment from industry and consumers from predatory banks – is moving forward under full steam.

The hardcore rump of the party is even working to punish moderate outliers like New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie – the party’s most popular leader – who was denied a speaking role at the conservative movement’s annual convention, CPAC. Today’s GOP may desperately need to remake itself as “culturally modern, environmentally responsible and economically inclusive,” argues David Frum, a veteran of the George W. Bush White House, but it remains, he says, in the throes of a “Tea Party tantrum.”

As it works to lock in as many retrograde policies as possible before it finally chooses to either modernize or die, the Republican Party is like a wounded beast: Rarely has it been more dangerous.

Desertflower, how are you dear one? Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you and family. This is a great read. I had just received it a few days ago, and that article was one of two of last nights reading for me. I found it to be very interesting for all to take serious about the GOP’s future on this nation.

There is also another interesting article in that same issue by Michael Hastings: “The Spy Who Cracked Up In The Cold.”

I do not know how to post it, but you probably read it as well. Go read as well.HZ

Father, thank You for protecting Vice-President Biden’s travels to the Vatican and let it be a joyous trip and safe and blessed. Also, God, in Jesus Name thank You Sir for protecting guiding and guarding President Obama during his trip to Israel. Let him be very well received and let his goals be accomplished there. Give both of our beloved leaders favor, protection, love, well-being, insight and guidance. Amen!

Molly K. Hooper – 03/17/13 10:20 AM ET
Durbin said he was “positive” about reaching an immigration reform deal, but cited two “tough” issues senators needed to resolve.…
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See? Stall on the debt situation, keep chipping away at federal government, keep having crisis about the debt every month, blame Obama, get control of senate, repeal Obamacare, voucherize Medicare, go live in China before revolution.

States to feds: Hands off our guns
Benjamin Goad – 03/17/13 06:00 AM ET
A growing number of states are moving forward with legislation to exempt them from new federal gun controls.…
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See? Another example! Something needs to be done because it’s the democratic party that is back on it’s heels not the republicans.

It doesn’tatter, the states that are doing this, are getting a lot of publicity, you know the states where Democratic Senators are running for office. Count them as No votes now on any gun legislation. 😦

Ha Ha Ha, they won’t fine one. There is only one Barack H. Obama. And don’t even try with that Ben Carson, he is just a smarter version of Herman Cain. His policies are no different then Herman Cain or Paul Ryan Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, he will not fool black folks to vote for him. No way.

“The disruption of Johnson’s peace talks then enabled Nixon to hang on for a narrow victory over Democrat Hubert Humphrey. However, as the new President was taking steps in 1969 to extend the war another four-plus years, he sensed the threat from the wiretap file and ordered two of his top aides, chief of staff H.R. “Bob” Haldeman and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, to locate it. But they couldn’t find the file.

We now know that was because President Johnson, who privately had called Nixon’s Vietnam actions “treason,” had ordered the file removed from the White House by his national security aide Walt Rostow.”

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“Nixon not only continued the Vietnam War, which had already claimed more than 30,000 American lives and an estimated one million Vietnamese, but he expanded it, with intensified bombing campaigns and a U.S. incursion into Cambodia. At home, the war was bitterly dividing the nation with a massive anti-war movement and an angry backlash from war supporters.”

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““There is something I want to tell you,” Arafat said, addressing Carter in the presence of historian Douglas Brinkley. “You should know that in 1980 the Republicans approached me with an arms deal [for the PLO] if I could arrange to keep the hostages in Iran until after the [U.S. presidential] election,” Arafat said, according to Brinkley’s article in the fall 1996 issue of Diplomatic Quarterly.”

thanks bob. i so appreciate your taking this to twitter. we pride ourselves as being a nation of laws, of justice, of democratically elected leaders. but the forces of corruption are a serious threat, always. price of freedom=eternal vigilance.

Bobfr, you are an insightful soul. Thank you for this and all that you bring to our attention. May we continue to help spread and bring the awareness needed to bring us to a better place. Thanks again, Bobfr.HZ

Did you know that despite the reports from the Crazy Pitiful And Confused (CPAC) people meetings, that though Rand Paul and Marco Rubio and the host of others on the ballot, ‘other’ actually won with 34% of the vote. What does that tell ya, huh? It tells you that they are Crappy Pathetic And Cuckoo!

That explains, until with this report from YOU, Cookemom, that explains why the Numbers were never reported. The MSM once again, going along with what the Righties want……truly codependents for these suffering wicked idiots.

Hi Everyone! I’m late to the party again! Just wanted to pop in and wish you all a splendid St Patrick’s Day! What a delight to see the warm greetings from Henry and Stephen today. This blog attracts all the best people! I’m so grateful for you all. Catch you later! Peace and enduring love. — Dudette

Well Family…the corned beef and cabbage is on! There are some foods that I could eat every day and corned beef is one of them. I eat my fill on St. Patrick’s Day! I hope you all have a great time indulging in whatever delights you today!

‘ Reeling from back-to-back presidential losses and struggling to cope with the country’s changing racial and ethnic makeup, the Republican National Committee plans to spend $10 million this year to send hundreds of party workers into Hispanic, black and Asian communities to promote its brand among voters who overwhelmingly supported Democrats in 2012.
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“It will include hundreds of people – paid – across the country, from coast-to-coast, in Hispanic, African American, Asian communities, talking about our party, talking about our brand, talking about what we believe in, going to community events, going to swearing-in ceremonies, being a part of the community on an ongoing basis, paid for by the Republican National Committee, to make the case for our party and our candidates,” Priebus said. ‘

Will Priebus implore his party in congress to stop being obstructionists and put forth policies that will benefit all of these ethnic groups, instead of taking away rights? Unless they change their brand, millions of dollars are not going to help.

Is that the price they only are willing to put on the outcome of a decent, hardworking, respectful American’s vote for them? Sad. These GOPers just do not get it. How many more elections will we have to win for them to get it.

Ten millions dollars will not change the hearts of people. And that would insult me as a voter in the first place. My community, my children, my grandparents health, my sons and daughters college right to get a fair and decent education in this country is only worth a party spending ten million dollars to show me your brand. No, it really shows me your heart. Remember, “out of the heart the mouth speaketh?” These people are sick and sad.

Until they change their hearts toward the 47 percent of the people, there is No Brand Change Period. Some brands are not Worth the money. Remember when you shop. So brands just are rotten to the core. Plain and simple. The American people can see what these GOPers have done to their savings, homes, children’s educational opportunities, health of the families, young and old, and obstruct the governing of our brilliant 44th President, Barack H. Obama. We are not fools. HZ

The results are in, though you didn’t hear them as they really are on the MSM. Rand just benefited from his filibuster antic and his dad who won everyone of those polls in the past. Rubio comes in a close second, but the word ‘immigration’ never left his lips. Actually, it’s ‘other’ and ‘undecided’ together that leads the pack. Maybe their ticket will be Other/Undecided 2016.

Funny Definition Of “Liberties” You Have There, Rand Paul
Posted by Zandar
Sen. Rand Paul is nothing more than a misogynist Tea Party douchebag like the rest of the Republican party’s “conservatives”. The use of sweeping federal power to outlaw choice is fine, as long as it’s used against groups that don’t include the subset of white Republican male senators.